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though there are blacks which reinure just as h)ng. My preference 

 among the commou out'S on the market is the Black and the Won- 

 derful. 



Q. Is not the cow pea much more difficult to handle to get into the 

 eilo than corn. 



A. It is more diflicull. We cut it with an ordinary mower, rake 

 it up with a horse rake, put it onto the wagon, but it is much harder 

 to feed into the silo. It is not absolutely necessary to cut it up to put 

 it into the silo; we have on two occasions put it in whole. 



At the suggestion of one of the members, Mr. Palmer gave his 

 experience in raising and putting away cow peas and corn together, 



Mr. Palmer: I planted the corn in alternate spaces of five and four 

 feet so that I could get a double drill in the five foot space. After 

 the corn was up, I run the drill through the five foot space and put 

 the cow peas in six feet from the corn row. The pea took to the corn 

 better than I expected. It was cut by hand with a hook cutter. In 

 this way the stock was cut and it was easily handled. Twenty to 

 twenty-five per cent, more labor was required to handle it in this way 

 than to handle the corn alone. The object in planting was to get a 

 stock of corn and a stock of pea® eight inches apart. I do not 

 imagine there would have been any perceptible difference in the 

 amount of corn raised if I had not put in the cow peas. The entire 

 yield was 160 tons. We are feeding it now and the cows like it very 

 much, equally as well as the corn silage. They commenced on it 

 about the first of last month. They run out until the weather got 

 cold. Since being brought in they are doing well, either from being 

 warmly housed or from the feed. 



Mr. Patterson in closing his discuission, said that he thought the 

 immaturity of the pea when put into the silo might make some dif- 

 ference in the quantity of milk. 



The following paper was then read by Mr. H. W. Comfort : 



